HTML "transition" (was Re: [ih] spam...)

[Perry E. Metzger]

Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > An interesting question, away from the spam discussion, is whether or
> > not we are "transitioning" to HTML as the preferred email carrier.
> > Now, it is true that a lot of HTML email is going around out there,
> > but so are a lot of microsoft .doc files and I doubt that .doc will be
> > anything but a memory in 20 or 25 years.
> 
> I'm not a big MS OS fan, but MS-Word disproves this.
> 
> I can open a document written in May 1986 with Office XP (just did it
> to verify it works). That's 17 years, and I don't see that changing in
> the next 5.

I've had this fail on me, actually, on a large corpus of documentation
that is now largely lost as a result.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com